In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the audience is supplied with an array of varying characters. Arthur Miller effectively categorizes the characters of the play into two juxtaposing categories; the accusers‚ and the accused. The accusers are led by the antagonist of the play‚ Abigail Williams‚ whereas the accused are led by the protagonist of the play‚ John Proctor. The audience sympathizes with John Proctor not only because he has been falsely accused‚ but also because he is a representation of the
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Honors English-10 19 October 2012 The Crucible Analysis Throughout The Crucible‚ the main character‚ John Proctor‚ had an internal change due to events and people in the story. Proctor was influenced by the Salem witch trials and the people involved in it. He learned lessons along the way and learned to stay true and honest to who he is. Proctor committed adultery with a girl named Abigail and felt terribly guilty. At first Proctor continued to fall into his guilt by lying and not moving
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The Crucible: A Literary Analysis In 1692‚ Salem was populated by Puritans who believed in black-and-white lines between good and evil. The powers of darkness were real forces to them‚ which could wreak havoc and destruction on society if unleashed. The system of government was that God was the true leader of society‚ and he expressed his will through the actions of men and women. In the Old Testament‚ we hear stories of how God led directly through Moses; Salem‚ likewise‚ was led through men who
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because of Arthur Miller‚ a man who believes that past events are connected to present realities through a strong moral logic. The trial’s motives and themes seemed to parallel those of a major movement in the late 1950s—McCarthyism. In his play‚ The Crucible‚ Miller retells the story of the witch trials and relates themes that were prominent in Salem to those prominent during McCarthyism. In doing so‚ he creates a character who nearly exemplifies Joseph McCarthy himself—Deputy Governor Danforth. As the
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The Crucible - Quotations Characters: Abigail Williams • Stage directions: an endless capacity for dissembling • “…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” • “I’d almost forgot how strong you are‚ John Proctor!” • Stage directions: Winningly she comes a little closer‚ with a confidential‚ wicked air. • “I want to open myself! I want the light of God… I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the
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logic causing mass hysteria. Mary Warren falls prey to hysteria and figuratively throws John Proctor under the bus instead of speaking the truth. Abigail with the other girls accused of witchcraft perform fake hallucinations and mind control to scare and bewilder others into believing witchcraft is truly being committed. The strange and sudden events of so many women being accused of witchcraft caused Salem as a whole to become enveloped in hysteria. In The Crucible‚ by
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alone. In The Crucible‚ when someone is accused of witchcraft all the young girls pretend to see the Devil‚ so the person accused gets hanged. They all just go with it and Mary Warren even pretends to faint. Danforth asks Mary Warren‚ “And you‚ Mary Warren‚ how came you to cry out people for sending their spirits against you?” Mary replied‚ “It were pretense‚ sir.” Danforth then replied‚ “Ah‚ And the other girls? Susanna Walcott‚ and--the others? They were also pretending?” Mary Warren confessed
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The Warren Court The 1960’s was an evolution of change in American history. When Earl Warren became Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1953 it made the most dramatic changes and held a far more liberal view than any other Supreme Court before. Some of its most important rulings were on African-American civil liberties. The Supreme Court changed American law on segregation in schools‚ criminal procedure‚ and privacy rights. Before the Warren Court the American law treated blacks as second class citizens
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Dishonesty and lying are huge factors in The Crucible and in society today. We are all guilty of lying or being dishonest at one point in time. The Crucible written by Arthur Miller in the 1952‚ is based in Salem Massachusetts. The book is centered around witchcraft being committed by local citizens in Salem. In the book John Proctor and Abigail Williams are the two main characters that are dishonest throughout the book. Witchcraft is known throughout Salem at the time because multiple groups of
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The era of McCarthyism was one of blame and accusations. McCarthy and his followers looked for anyone and everyone they could to victimize as communist believers. Arthur Miller‚ the author of The Crucible‚ was one of those many. As a famous play-writer during this time‚ Miller was blacklisted by McCarthy for refusing to testify in front of the HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee)‚ and through this he realized a common social issue that can be applied world wide. Arthur Miller argues that
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